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1) From workers' control to workers' management of production.

2) From the all-peasant struggle against landowners to the proletarian struggle in the countryside against all bourgeoisie.

3) From defenselessness to the Red Army.

4) From isolation to a series of republics created by revolution.

Σ[41] = Soviet power (and the Constitution) as the dictatorship of the proletariat

[ "The Ruling Class" ]

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1. The significance of the October coup?

before it: imperialism

– – deception of the masses

concealment of this deception by pseudo-socialism of the petty bourgeoisie.

2. The rupture of the imperialist war (publication of secret treaties), the power of the proletariat.

The beginning of the socialist revolution

Its difficult growth:

Fierce resistance from all imperialists, from all bourgeoisie both Russian and international.

Growth of the working class.

3. From workers' control to workers' management.

4. From the all-peasant struggle against landowners to the differentiation of the proletarian class struggle in the countryside.

5. From defenselessness to an army (Red)…

6. From the first independent steps of Soviet organization to its consolidation on a nationwide scale and up to the Soviet Constitution.

7. From isolation to an international alliance of the revolution that has begun…

Written in November, no later than 6, 1918

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI

Printed from the manuscript